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Hold Wall Street to ice-cream standard

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
04/23/2013 08:09:05 AM EDT

As the weather turns ever warmer, more and more people are looking forward to enjoying spring and summer activities.

And what is more fun than a visit to an ice cream stand? But for folks visiting the Great Brook Farm in Carlisle, there will be no such fun. Their ice cream stand has been ordered closed by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, until certain building and plumbing permit issues have been resolved.

Indeed, the Great Brook Farm saga has been ongoing for some time, as reported in The Sun. In May of last year, that same agency dispatched armed environmental police to Great Brook Farm to shut the stand down.

Meanwhile, in a different area of planet Earth, a cadre of multimillionaire bankers, brokers, dealers, speculators, shysters, and charlatans has for the past several years done a pretty thorough job of stealing the savings, pensions, retirement plans, equity, and net worth of millions of ordinary Americans. With a few notable exceptions, they have never been called to account for their actions.

In other words, fewer armed law-enforcement personnel have been sent to Wall Street to apprehend the thieves, than have been sent to beat up on an ice cream stand in Carlisle.

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